On 11 September 2013 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> What is the num_pages field supposed to mean, given that >> "page size" isn't a well defined platform independent value >> (for hardware or for QEMU)? > > It's 4k on x86 and not really defined on !x86 (with the !x86 installed > base being pretty close to zero). > > I think we should just define it to be 4k everywhere.
Yeah, if you're just using it as a "we didn't want a 64 bit field so we could make this a simple byte count" then saying "it's in units of 4K" is the simplest fix. -- PMM
